Great Giana Sisters, The 
Platform: Amiga 500
Region: Europe
Media: Floppy
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Platformer - Side-Scrolling - Comical
Gametype: Pirate
Release Year: 1988
Developer: Time Warp Productions
Publisher: GO!
Players: 1 or 2
Relationship: is a prequel to Hard \'n\' Heavy
Hardware: OCS
Conversions: Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC
Disks: 1
Programmer: Thomas Hertzler
Musician: Thomas Lopatic (Dr. Nobody/HQC)
Designer: Manfred Trenz
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The Great Giana Sisters is a 2D side-scrolling arcade game like Nintendo's Super Mario Bros.

After a long and deep sleep, Giana finds herself in a mysterious and evil dreamworld where everything is strange and different. 

In 32 levels, Giana has to fight against bad monsters, huge spiders and lots of other creatures to find a magic diamond that makes it possible to return to her own world.

Withdrawn from sale across all formats shortly after release due to Nintendo's threat of legal action over similarities to their NES game, SUPER MARIO BROTHERS, which they alleged breached copyright. Consequently, the original release is one of the rarest commercial Amiga games.
 
http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/great-giana-sisters

Based on 1987 Time Warp/Rainbow Arts C64/128 release.
Withdrawn from sale across all formats shortly after release due to Nintendo's threat of legal action over similarities to their NES game, SUPER MARIO BROTHERS, which they alleged breached copyright. Consequently, the original release is one of the rarest commercial Amiga games.
The Spectrum release was reviewed, but never released because of the game's withdrawal from sale.
Box cover design of the international version by Camel Advertising, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

http://hol.abime.net/2793
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CHEATS:

Level skip:
Hold A + R + M + I + N
during game play.

Advance to level 6:
Stand at the end of the row of blocks on level 3 and
jump up to hit the invisible block.
